It surely helps me to try to visualize the experience I am reading about – Jesus, the crowd of people, and then the bold action of a man with leprosy. That just wasn’t the way such a person was expected to act – for he was to keep his distance from others due to his disease.
“Go to the priest,” said Jesus. I notice again how often references in the New Testament go back to lessons from the Old Testament.
Yes, I recall that little rhyme:
“The New is in the Old concealed; The Old is in the New revealed.”
I’ve often wondered: how many folks came to Jesus for help who weren’t “quite the kind” we’d expect – non-religious, outcasts. And notice those who “felt so religious” who often rejected Jesus.
AND YET, JESUS LOVED THEM.
v. 20 He didn’t really have “a place to lay His head”. I get sort of emotional as I think of that, especially in contrast to all that I/we have.
He gave up so much to come down to earth to be with us and help us.
Donald E. Pardun
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